The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-29
SOUTHERN cLEANINcs.

highly esteemed.
A student at Vanderbilt University, in
Tennessee, has Just beat the worlds rec
ord in high kicking, having succeeded in
hitting a mark at the unprecedented
hei ght Of nine feet three and one-hah
inches.
Miss Lemley, of Montgomery County,
Tenn, com mitted suicide by hanging 8
few days ago. She was a religious en-.
thusiast and her mind had become un.
balanced.
The ex-Union negro soldiers at New Or
leans are clamoring for admission to the
Grand Army of the Republic. Having
been refused by the local department,
they will appeal to the Grand Encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
There is at present at Mount Vernon,
Barracks, Ala, an old army mule that has
a record of service in the army covering
a period of sixty years. He has been en-.
tered on the Government rolls as PEN
sioner, getting his feed and care during
life and exemption from sale.
Nea ar Troy, Tenn, a few evenings since,
James B. Kitchel was run over and in
stantly killed by train on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad. Kitchel was
blacksmith, originally from Metropolis,
Ill He left wife and several children.
bill recently introduced into the
Georgia Legislature prohibits the use of
the little chromos that go with packages
of cigarettes.
Nine head of thoroughbred Holstein-
Frisian cattle were poisoned few nights
ago by some unknown person, who threw
paris green, mixed with salt, in ]. S. Ed
munds' pasture, near Manchester, La.
Eight of the animals have died.
The boiler of E. L. Cham lain's new
saw-mill at Natchez, Miss, exploded
few days since, wrecking the mill, kill
ing Dorsey Scott (colored), hrem an, and
f,Syr II 1nsv
and proprietor, and two or three others.
The startling discovery was made at
Lexington, KY, few nights ago that
the incendiaries who set on fire the large
coal and feed esta Bills hment of Descognets
& Co. twice within week are five small
boys ranging in age from seven to nine
years, some of them belonging to good
families.
Parties digging a we'll in Nashville,
Tenn, a few days since, found the tusk of
a mastodon twenty eight inches in cir
cumference and nearly seven feet long.
| Prof Stafford, State Geologist and Pro-
fessOr of Mineralogy and Geology at Van
derbilt University, examined it, and pro
nounced it undoubtedly the remains of
mastodon.
Nimrod Burrow, an old and eccentric
farmer of Carlisle County, KY, was shot
and killed by his te nant, Jack Russell,
| few days ago The weapon used was a
shotgun, the load taking effect in Bur-
rows head, killing him instantly. A feud
| had existed between the two men for
some time.
! Fire destroyed the Barnhardt Hotel, a
! tWo-story wooden structure, at Bessemer,
Ala, a few nights ago, together with
! twenty-one adjoining houses of the same
| character. Thirteen persons were hurt
| bad enough to need the services of the
| ply ysicians, and the injuries of an en-
| graver named Frederick Peterson were
1 thought to be fatal.
United States Marshal Gross and an
armed force left Louis vile, KY, a few
days since for Campbellsburg the county
seat of Taylor County, KY, to make a
| levy in enforcement of a ju lgment again st
| the people of the county for a railroad.
| The people are furious, and lively times
! were ex pected.
| For s ONE time past freight cars Of the
Knoxville branch of the Louisville q
/ Nashville road have been systematically
robbed and large amounts of goods taken.
! William Pollock, brakeman, for fifteen
| years in the road s service, was arres ted at
Louisville, a few days since, land confessed
| the robbery. He duplicates James Fueu,
| a colored boarding house keeper of
Lebanon, KY. Most Of the stolen goods
were Cincinnati shipments, some of which
| have been recovered.
Daisy Cherry, an eleven-year-old col
| ored girl, of Barnwell, n. c., has been
| convicted Of the murder of white in
fant, and sentenced to be hanged at Co
! lum bia in September. The young Grim
inal was hired out by her parents to
| nurse a white baby. The work was dis
tasteful to her, and she administered a
dose of concentrated I've to the child,
which caused its death in a few hours.
| T. DE Witt Saddler shot and killed J. G.
| Harrison at Pineapple, Ala, a few days
| ago, and the coroner's jury gave verdict
| of accidental homicide. They had been
out hunting and began joking by Saddler
asking for a chew Of tobacco. Harrison
refused, and Saddler pointed his gun at
| him playfully, when it went off by acci-
dent, killing Harrison on the spot Both
were respectable white citizens.
! At Wincheste", Va, recently, the grand
jury indicted prominent Is sraelite mer
| chant, N KOhn, and his niece, Emma
| FrankeL The parties were married by
| Rabbi Phi lipson, of Har Sinai Taber-
nacle, in Baltimore, January 81 1887, and
| returned to Winchester to reside. The
| Virginia law forblds the marriage in the
State of parties thus connected, or, hav-
| ing been married, from returning there to
reside as man and wife. The penalty is
a heavy fine and Imprisonment Eminent
! counsel has been engaged by Kohn.
! The Georgia House of Representative
/ DdSS6Q Tue OLlOu w lu6~TNOOn OIL a
! vote of 90 to 90. The necessity for the bill
arose from the fact that the law under
| which lis of the 1877 counties of Georgia
| have become dry, permits the sale of do
mestie wine. Under this law the State
| was filed with wine-rooms, which sold
vilest compounds of wine and whisky.
! The bill imposes a tax of SO 90 10 a year
upon each and every one Of these wine
! rooms
Fran K Allen, residing at Marble Hill,
| Franklin County, Tenn, cut his throat
from ear to ear few days ago while in
| the presence Of his wife, and died a few
minutes later. Allen had been actin g
/ queer lately, so much so that il was
| deemed best to send him to the State
4 Asylum for the Insane. Mrs. Allen told
/ him that DR. Taylor was in an adjoinin g
/ room to examine him. He Immediately
| drew knife from his pocket and sue
/ ceeded in cutting his throat before he
could be prevented.
Cotton is showing up well.
The residence of Mr.. R J. wilkins, at
! Paducah, KY, was totally destroyed by
/ fire, together with all its contents, a few
/ nights ago. The building was valued at
! $1,000, on which there was an insurance of
$500. The loss on the furniture is es IT,
mated at 500; no insurance. The cause
Of the fire is supposed to have been the
! explosion of a lamp.
Senator Colquitt, Of Georgia, says that
\ in the twelve Southern States there are
/ fewer saloons to the population than in
any other States except Maine and Kan
sas. Local option had been adopted in
/ Georgia and Alabama and prohibition
was complete and permanent success.
The Texas grape crop gives promise Of
/ big returns.
As James Williams, of Oakford, Ky,
/ was at work at saw-mill a few days
! ago, his clothes became ght IN pull
/ ley and be was thrown on the saw before
he could get away. His right leg was cut